Becoming a Zuckerberg
Posted: February 17, 2012 Filed under: General Wintermission Leave a comment »On thursday the 16th, The How to Become A Zuckerberg class learned how to program a website with picutures and text. We Controlled every part of the website, down to how big the picutres were. Everyone in the class made their own version of the website, but Olivia was on a roll and had a lot of interesting and cool things on her website. We used pictures that we took during the SAS trip, and pictures we found off the internet. Cat found a lot of good pictures! We sat re-designing the website for the entire class period and had a lot of fun!
-Miranda McBride ’14
“Things You Have Bought But Never Used”
Posted: February 17, 2012 Filed under: Taking the Time to Write Your World: Creative Writing Workshop Leave a comment »Sample Writing:
Shoes that have never known concrete
Kites that have never known flight
Crayons that long to be artistic
Journals that beg for my secrets
– Lilly P. ’15
Valentine’s Day Poems <3
Posted: February 15, 2012 Filed under: Taking the Time to Write Your World: Creative Writing Workshop 2 Comments »In creative writing today, we focused on lyrical versus narrative poems, found poems, concrete language versus abstract, short stories, and true to Valentine’s Day— love poems. Among with these themes, we were given various prompts to write and were sent home with the homework of working on our short stories or love poems.
– Lilly P. ’15
SAS Day
Posted: February 14, 2012 Filed under: How to Become a Zuckerberg (in a Week) 1 Comment »Eleven Foxcroft girls traveled in two minivans to Cary, NC, to attend a seminar for high school students hosted by the Statistical Analytical System company (SAS) at their impressively expansive campus. SAS is a company that specializes in helping its customers analyze and understand large amounts of data. I had signed up for the SAS trip with no knowledge about computer programming — I only knew that I would be missing classes for two days and that there would be boys there.
Our day at SAS began with a presentation from four current SAS employees, each of whom discussed a unique part of this remarkable company. We sat in an auditorium set up like the U.N. Massive amounts of information and data were displayed, which SAS could compute and make sense of in seconds. The employees also explained the history of computer programming and how far technology has come — what used to take days to be able to analyze can now be analyzed in seconds. The computer programming that the employees are working on is cutting-edge and is forming our future in technology. We were also privy to a panel which discussed the benefits of pursuing a career at SAS, including Analytical Consultant, Java Web Developer, or Applications Developer, by advertising the amount of income and demand or people skilled in computer programming. Personally my favorite part of the day was the trivia about SAS we would volunteer to answer questions on stage. We learned that SAS was celebrating its 36th anniversary, and that SAS was founded by a professor from North Carolina State.
SAS has an amazing campus that is completely self-sufficient with fields of solar panels, organically grown foods, and extensive amenities located on ground. Lunch was one of the many highlights of the day, featuring organic foods and a health-conscious menu. The peanut butter cookies were apparently a big hit but, unfortunately, I was at the end of the line missing out because the boys ahead of me had taken more than their share. After attending SAS, I now am very interested in computer programming and hopefully will further my knowledge about SAS.
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- The Solar Panel at SAS
– Maddie T. ’14
